Sr Staff Engineer - Core Infrastructure
Uber
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This role pays more than 86% of similar roles. Most pay $165,250–$215,175 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $232k versus about $190k for comparable roles.
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Uber Technologies, Inc. is the world’s largest, San Francisco-based mobile technology platform facilitating on-demand ride-hailing, food delivery (Uber Eats), and freight transportation across approximately 70 countries.
Uber currently has 95 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $232,000–$232,000 across 76 roles with salary data.
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As a Staff Engineer in Core Infrastructure, you will lead the architectural evolution and development of backend solutions that power Uber’s global operations, focusing on creating a secure, reliable, and hyperscale-efficient cloud-native ecosystem. You will work with stakeholders to design systems capable of handling 1M+ concurrent trips and Generative AI data demands. Key responsibilities include driving efficiency at scale by optimizing CPU utilization and ARM adoption, modernizing for multi-cloud resilience, integrating AIOps tools, championing security practices, and collaborating across teams to support large-scale models and autonomous vehicle data ingestion. The role requires expertise in Go, Java, or C++, distributed systems design, Kubernetes internals, and AI/ML infrastructure, with a focus on hybrid-cloud migrations and cost optimization. You will also mentor engineers and foster operational excellence within the team that builds Uber’s next-generation orchestration and networking layers.
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